Crypto Newsletter

  • Bitcoin Thief Admits $245M Heist

  • $400K BTC in 4 yrs still 'reasonable’: Coinbase

  • ETH’s Glamsterdam set for Sepolia on Oct 6

  • Vitalik plan cuts quantum-safe privacy costs

  • X adds support for Robinhood Chain tickers

  • DoubleZero added Kalshi’s election and politics order books to its low-latency data feed ahead of the November 3 midterms, with more than $133 million already wagered on House and Senate races

  • Pumpfun app removed from US iOS App Store

  • Nasdaq invested $100M in Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, per Bloomberg

  • Solana sees ATH 263K tokens issued in one day

  • CLARITY Act adds DeFi rules ahead of vote

  • Block applied to the OCC for a national trust charter to custody Bitcoin through Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured, non-depository bank consolidating work now run under 50-plus state licenses

  • Crypto market concentration at 2021 levels

  • Vlad Tenev said Robinhood doesn’t need AMC’s consent to issue stock tokens, describing them as debt securities backed 1:1 by shares held as collateral, carrying dividends but no voting rights

  • Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent at $21B

  • SBF asks SC to overturn conviction

  • Base App rebrands back to Coinbase Wallet

  • MoneyGram debuts stablecoin Visa card

  • The Secret Service froze $52.8 million in USDT across 52 wallets tied to Telegram scam marketplace Xinbi Guarantee, which has processed at least $24 billion since 2022

  • Kalshi plans 24/7 Tesla, Apple, Nvidia perps

  • OKX intros 10x OpenAI, Anthropic perps in EU

  • India launches digital INR settlement for bonds

  • Arya.ag puts $2B India grain network on Aave

  • UK crypto strategy wins House of Lords backing

  • Russia to require tax IDs for crypto accounts

  • Nasdaq urges EU to scrap €100B tokenization cap

  • LayerZero Introduces Post-Quantum Commitment Scheme

  • Decrypt Launches iOS App

  • Pump.fun App Tops Robinhood Chain Token Volume

  • Grok Adds Coinbase Portfolio Trading

  • Trezor said hackers breached its third-party email provider and sent a fake “Critical Security Alert” claiming an STM32 entropy flaw, with researchers reporting BitBox users got the same thing

    AI & NFT

    • Oracle rallies after market on earnings beat

    • OpenAI pauses new pro subs on Astra demand

    • OpenAI launches new ChatGPT for finance

    • LG TVs caught scanning home networks

    • Otherdeeds (+20%) and The 404 Machines (+12%) led top movers

    • OpenAI weighs slowing frontier AI work

    • Let OpenAI into the energy grid: Altman

    • Iran used Claude to surveil thousands: Anthropic

    • NFT leaders were mostly flat; Punks even at 30 ETH, BAYC even at 6.8 ETH, Pudgy even at 3.7 ETH

    • Chinese labs trained on millions of Claude chats

    • Coxon's AI doom claims 'deeply untrue’: Jensen

    • AI doomers 'having AI psychosis’: Sacks

    • Rather American killer robots than Chinese: Cruz

    • DeepSeek nears GPT-6 Astra design at 1.4% cost

    • Nvidia could grow 70% next year: Jensen

    • Microsoft aims to triple cloud capacity by 2032

    • Universal Music, ElevenLabs launch AI platform

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